Hack Lab and Mac access

[mailinglistmatt at gmail.com (Matt Erasmus)]

Good morning..

I just used to ssh to the Vmware server and run the "vmware" binary..

    ssh -CY x.x.x.x "vmware"

This method assumes a few things:

 1. You have the X11 environment installed on OS X. I believe this is
default in Snow Leopard.

 2. You're running some form of Linux as your host OS.

 3. You're running Vmware server rather than work station etc...

It can be a little buggy / painful to work with. I actually generally
use either a Windows / Linux desktop running in Vmware Fusion to do
this sort of thing. It's an option for me simply because I generally
have at least one VM running constantly.


Just my 0.02c worth...

On 23 February 2010 23:16, k41zen <k41zen at live.co.uk> wrote:
> I've finally built my hack lab, inspired by the latest podcasts discussing it, only to find that accessing it from 
> the Mac is a bitch.
>
> The VMware Server remote console plugin doesn't work with later versions of Firefox for the Mac. ?Some people appear 
> to have installed Fusion on the Mac and access them from either a Linux/M$ OS but this just feels wrong. I suppose I 
> could RDP into the server and use them that way but that seems crap.
>
> So I was wondering how people with Mac's access their VM's in their lab or if anyone has gotten the remote console 
> plugin working on their Mac somehow.


- Matt